Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(LILBURNE, JOHN.) [Walker, Clement.] The Triall, of Lieut. Collonell John Lilburne, By an extraordinary or special Commission, of Oyear and Terminer at the Guild-Hall of London, the 24, 25, 26, of October. 1649 . . . published by Theodorus Verax [pseud.]. [6], 166, [2] pages, including initial leaf with statement by Lilburne authorizing publication, and engraved portrait of him on trial. 4to, 19th-century cloth, spine darkened; imprint cropped with loss, marginal repairs on several leaves causing slight text loss. [London]: Hen. Hills, [1649]

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A leader of the Leveller movement during the English Civil War, Lilburne (d. 1657) was acquitted of the charge of high treason against the Cromwell regime. Wing W338.